NCIS - From the Beginning....

[dragonheart]

I am one of those NCIS fans who hasn’t seen very many episodes from S1 and S2 – I didn’t start watching until S3 and never had time to go back and catch up -- although I have watched some of them, so I am not completely clueless to the happenings in the early days of the show. But, I have to admit that I am far from well versed in these two seasons

 

My friend nakeisha  loves S1 & S2, after reading some of her comments and posts, I have decided that I am going to go back and watch all the episodes during hiatus – and I am watching them in order.

 

I started last night with 1.1 Yankee White – the pilot episode.

 

Here are some of the things I noticed:

·         Gibbs has been building boats from the beginning – first scene that we see of him he is in his basement sanding a boat

·         It’s a two man field team (Gibbs and Tony)

·         Gibbs smiles A LOT and has a sense of humor about most things

·         The rules have been around from the beginning

·         Ducky has always had his little anecdotes

·         Tony was competent – but fun

·         Gibbs flirted with Kate (oh yes, he did – it was subtle – but it was there)

·         Abby wasn’t quite as gothic or quirky

·         Abby looked about 10 lbs heavier (and it looked good on her – she’s way too thin now)

·         Gibbs was a movie buff – He knew a lot about the movie Executive Decision set aboard Air Force One.

·         Fornell has been around since the beginning and he and Gibbs didn’t know each other (not sure how the shared ex-wife plays into that – I am a bit confused on that timeline – maybe subsequent episodes will clear that up for me)

·         Gerald was Ducky’s assistant

·         The gag that no one has ever heard of NCIS (the agency) has been around since the beginning

·         Director Tom Morrow ROCKED – I didn’t know what we were missing in a Director until I saw him

 

I am excited about watching the episodes that I haven’t seen and re-watching the episode that I have seen with “fresh eyes”.

 

A good way to get my NCIS fix over the hiatus!

Comments

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Excellent - I'm so glad you're going back and that you enjoyed Yankee White.

As for Fornell, nope, it's never explained. However, what happened was TPTB only ever expected Fornell to appear in that one episode, but once they saw the way MH and JS sparked with one another, they decided that Fornell was going to appear again. Maybe they thought we wouldn't remember *wry grin*.

I, however, never bought the 'we're two senior agents in our respective Federal Agencies and have been there for well over a decade and yet we don't know one another'. Huh!?!?!! I never bought that one.

I LOVE Tom Morrow, I really, really wish he hadn't left.

Abby did indeed look better.

And Ducky has indeed been Ducky since day one with his little tales.

[toomuchfandom.livejournal.com]

(Joe Spano actually appeared on an episode of Reasonable Doubts with Mark Harmon and that was a great ep if I remember correctly! Joe is not an actor you hire for one episode, even if he's "just a big name" to get the series going :-D)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

I'd agree, but they definitely had only planned on him for the one episode - silly people!